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re: St. Jude and why it is the best charity you can donate to
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:03 pm to tduecen
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:03 pm to tduecen
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.91 of Red Cross
I'm clearly thinking of a different company, but I thought one of the big ones (I thought it was red cross but maybe wrong on that) was essentially a waste and only like 5% or something of your contributions actually went to folks in need. Is that not right?
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Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:03 pm to WG_Dawg
Probably .91 of every dollar to Red Cross does NOT go to charity
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:05 pm to WG_Dawg
Originally it was 0.09 went to actual needs but according to websites that has been corrected
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:30 pm to tduecen
quote:Thanks I respect few organizations as much as Doctors Without Borders. I actually made them & World Wildlife Fund( I think) small beneficiaries of my Life insurance & 401k.
.91 of Red Cross
.85 of World Vision
.81 of Doctors without Borders
.71 of Nature Conservatory
But back to St Jude. All homes /prizes for NOLA/BR & Lafayette are ready online & its a good cause. I may purchase a couple more tickets before they sell out.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:45 pm to tduecen
Bc Danny Thomas made a promise
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The hospital was founded on the premise that "no child should die in the dawn of life". This idea resulted from a promise that Thomas, a Maronite Catholic, had made to a saint years before the hospital was founded. Thomas was a comedian who was struggling to get a break in his career and living paycheck to paycheck. When his first child was about to be born, he attended Mass in Detroit, and put his last $7.00 in the offering bin. He prayed to Saint Jude Thaddeus for a means to provide for his family, and about a week later, he obtained a gig that paid 10 times what he had put in the offering bin.
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He promised St. Jude Thaddeus that if the saint made him successful, he would one day build him a shrine. Years later, Thomas became an extremely successful comedian and built St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as a shrine to St. Jude Thaddeus to honor his promise.
This post was edited on 3/20/21 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:47 pm to terd ferguson
Fantastic organization
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:48 pm to tduecen
Agreed. When I donate its either St. Jude or a veterans charity.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:49 pm to terd ferguson
Some of the veterans charities seem to have too much overhead cost
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:50 pm to tduecen
True... the ones I usually donate to are smaller, local organizations
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:53 pm to terd ferguson
Got you, sucks there is no larger organization.... shite something going to PTSD of returning soldiers and helpings them acclimate to society would be fantastic
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:55 pm to terd ferguson
Just be careful with their experimental treatments. St Jude is always doing experimental treatments and you don’t know what they are giving. I’ve had referrals( kids) die of cardiac toxicity from their regimen, that are 98% cure rates everywhere else with conventional chemo, and I mean they died from the treatment, not the cancer. I still like St Jude, but after what I’ve seen, I’m very careful of the patients I refer. Still one of the best charities there is out there, but just know there’s always some gray area in everything, especially if it’s free.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 5:59 pm to CamdenTiger
Wouldn't they alert parents to that though? Especially if their kid has a cancer with a high mortality rate?
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:01 pm to tduecen
What piece of shite downvotes this OP? That has to be an accidental DV. There’s no way anyone does that
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:03 pm to WG_Dawg
It’s a poor stat to judge a charity by. It’s easy for charities to classify expenses as program related and have an auditor certify. Executive salaries compared to organizational assets is usually a pretty good way to judge how a group uses its money.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:05 pm to Midget Death Squad
People who hate me as a poster
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:06 pm to tduecen
They do alert, and set up echo’s; esp with using adriomysin, but some of the regimens are experimental and blind, and even after mortality review, they don’t release the experimental ( new drug). It’s devastating watching a kids heart triple in size and become non-compliant and die from Hodgkin’s lymphoma witch had a 98% cure rate with conventional treatment. Why add an experimental?? F’ck....Parents sign for these experimental treatments, it’s free, so.... just be aware!
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:08 pm to CamdenTiger
I assume the experimental treatments are for those that already have a rare form of cancer?
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:09 pm to tduecen
A truly noble organization. Always happy to donate to them.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:11 pm to tduecen
Some close friends have unfortunately utilized St. Jude and I will happily donate to that organization. As a father, I couldn’t imagine a greater pain that watching my child go through something like that.
If you don’t support any other way, consider linking all your Amazon purchases to St. Jude through AmazonSmile. I’m not sure if they recently did it, but you can now activate it through the app as well.
Three Lines -> Settings -> AmazonSmile.
If you don’t support any other way, consider linking all your Amazon purchases to St. Jude through AmazonSmile. I’m not sure if they recently did it, but you can now activate it through the app as well.
Three Lines -> Settings -> AmazonSmile.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 6:13 pm to tduecen
No, Hodgkins is pretty common childhood cancer, and has high cure rates with MOPP and CHOP chemo regimens. It’s one of the best, if you can say that, cancers you can get as a kid...Experimental shouldn’t be used here, but that’s what they did...I blame myself for sending them there, but it was there choice when I listed all the parameters; and the cost/benefits led them there.....
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